Life and Fate
Tickets at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London

The legendary Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg returns to London this spring.

Life and Fate will be coming to Theatre Royal Haymarket for a strictly limited season.

It’s early 1943. Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Russia are in a bitter struggle for their very survival.

Adapted for the stage for the very first time from Vasily Grossman’s celebrated novel, banned because of the parallels it drew between Nazism and Soviet Communism, Life and Fate is a sweeping panorama of Soviet Society, an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single Jewish family, the Shtrum’s.

From Nazi concentration camps to the Gulags of Siberia and the Soviet nuclear programme, as the battle of Stalingrad looms large the characters must work out their destinies in a world torn by ideological tyranny and war.

This critically acclaimed production, winner of the Golden Mask for best play, has toured around the world since its première in 2007, shining a light on the heart of 20th-century darkness.